Andreas Bummel (*9. February 1976 in

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) is co-founder and Director of

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and of the international campaign for a

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. From 1998 to 2008 he was coordinator for UN reform issues of the

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, one of Germany’s leading human rights organizations and since 1998 he is a member of the Council of the

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-Institute for Global Policy in New York. In 2012, he was elected as a fellow by the

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in recognition of his work on a world parliament and in 2015 the Society for Threatened Peoples awarded him the association’s honorary membership. A submission he made was a semi-finalist in the New Shape Prize in 2016 of the

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In 2018, he authored a major book on the history, relevance and implementation of a world parliament (with co-author

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) titled "A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century".

Publications include

* Toward Global Political Integration: Time for a World Parliamentary Assembly, Great Transition Initiative, August 2016 * A World Parliament and the Transition from International Law to World Law, Cadmus Journal, Vol. 2, no. 3, October 2014 * A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly: A policy review of Democracy Without Borders, 2020PDF download
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